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every Morning. 'Whereupon there was fuch a 
Rcmiftion of his Pains, that during almoft a Fort- 
night, he got more Reft without Opiates than before 
with them ; infomuch that being greatly revived, and 
regaining home Appetite, he got down Stairs Two or 
Three times. Thinking the Plaifter increafed his 
Pain, Indigo blue Linen was applied in its room. 
The Mercury came away by Stool, and he had now 
one almoft every Day, and fometimes twice a Day, 
without a Clyftcr. His chief Drink was Milk arid 
warm Water.— — His grand Complaint now Was 
a moft troublelome Cardialgia, [ cfpcCially when he 
lay down, which was fomewhat mitigated by Pow- 
ders of Cret. Britan, cum pauxillo Sal. Abjinth. From 
the firft Ufe of the Mercury he feemed on the mend- 
ing hand, till after about 12 Days, when omitting 
it for a few Days, he relapfed into his former or a 
worfe Condition; and though he was fomewhat 
ealier on the Repetition of it, the good EfFefts lafted 
not long. He drooped daily from the 4th of Ja- 
nuary, and on the 13 th died, emaciated and almoft 
exangnis. 
Upon Difie&ion, nothing preternatural appeared 
in the Integuments, abdominal Mufcles, or Perito- 
neum immediately under them. — -But under all 
thefe, where the Protuberance had been obferved, 
and immediately under the Omentum , (which was 
deftitute of Fat, and its lower Part was mortified) 
there came in View an anomalous Subftance/# Situ , 
feemingly as big as a very large Potatoe ; which, 
when the circumambient Fifcera were removed, was 
found to be a feirrhous, fungous, cancerated Excre- 
lcence, rooted, as it were, to the Left Side of the 
Fer- 
